MIAMI (AFP) - They have watched elections in the Balkans, in Asia and South Africa, but the complexity of the US presidential election every four years is enough to give a headache to even the most seasones international observer.
It is "not one election, but 13,000 elections," said Canadian expert Ron Gould, a member of a delegation from the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation (news - web sites) in Europe (OSCE (news - web sites)) in Miami for the 2004 US elections after observing some 70 elections around the world.
"We like to see the setup, how organized it is, whether they are disorganized, whether they are on time," he explained. Yet "it is impossible to assess a fragmented system," he said.
His notes and those of his colleagues will remain confidential until an official report is released in Washington later in the week.
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